My daughter is holding a dolly wearing a matching dress I made for her when she was three. It started a tradition still carried on today with every new baby in the family.
The very last photo in my recent ‘Miss you Mum’ post, my grand-daughter is wearing a dress with a matching doll (just as lovingly made) and wouldn’t let go of her.
Her sister (my other grand-daughter) got one on her 1st birthday last year, too:
One friend of my daughter wanted to surprise his wife with a doll made in her image, wearing traditional dress, for her birthday:
For her 30th, my daughter had a kid-themed party and wanted a mini-me ‘Dorothy’ doll:
The prize for the best dressed costume of the night was a mini-me doll – but The Mario Bros won! I made and dressed TWO dolls and my artistic daughter painted the faces. Both were quickly snaffled by girlfriends!
I made these two boy dolls (1st photo below) for my daughter-in-law’s friends…
Also clowns, more dolls and many, many Gollies which although not politically correct some years ago, now are eminently collectible.
I had a Mama Doll and a Golly when I was young and of my 100+ dolls – those two were my favourites.
Maybe it’s because they seemed more ‘real’ to me, growing up in Africa.
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